Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

But one of the things that came out at that time was that Visa in fact did view Plaid as a potential competitor, with one executive likening the startup to an island “volcano” whose capabilities at that time were just “the tip showing above the water,” warning that “what lies beneath, though, is a massive opportunity — one that threatens Visa.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. We also saw these decisions as an opportunity to build a longer runway.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. As tech offices begin to reopen, the workplace could look very different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

I viewed it as a sizable opportunity to build a vertically integrated software platform that would automate workflows for a mortgage company,” Carmel told TechCrunch. “My We see this as a compelling window and opportunity to really help transform the market.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In parallel, startups and incumbents vying for talent in the increasingly competitive job market have bid up the median wage of a San Francisco technology worker 15% each year, from about $90k to well over to $180k in 2014. Real estate costs add only 5% of per employee costs. Real estate costs add only 5% of per employee costs.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. Most interestingly, new company wealth (pure play Internet companies) far exceeds “transitioned wealth” (incumbent companies transitioning their model successfully to the new platform). TripAdvisor and Yelp rule the day, not Frommers and Zagat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Guess we’ll see about that. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

I recently wrote about a new company called Glean AI , started by former OnDeck and Better.com CFO Howard Katzenberg, which aims to help businesses save money by using machine learning to analyze things like deal terms, line-item data, redundant offerings and negotiation opportunities. Well, that’s it for this week!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

They also worked a lot on helping fintechs build partnerships with incumbent financial institutions — experience they plan to use to offer portfolio companies bespoke “Strategy Sheets” alongside term sheets. It made my week to have the opportunity to cover this news, not going to lie.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. Electrifying these vehicles is a big carbon opportunity: while buses and trucks only represent 10% of the vehicles on the road, they generate 30 percent of the sector’s global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. identity, voting, real estate, tickets, receipts, music rights, medical records?—?there there are all kinds of real-world use cases for NFTs. Buy and sell options on crypto.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And if you miss that opportunity, you have no idea when the next opportunity to cash out your chips. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. So if you're searching for a real estate Boston or something like that, it'll look at all the pages that's indexed. And this is the position you were in.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.”

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